Curlee v. Rogan
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Lee County Court; John H. Tate, Judge. Action by Jake Rogan against J. A. Cur-lee. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
Appellee brought this suit in the justice’s court against appellant for the recovery of actual and exemplary damages, growing out of the alleged wrongful and malicious seizure and conversion on the part of appellant of one bale of cotton belonging ■ to appellee, of the value of $46.90, for which he claimed actual damages, and the further sum of $100 as exemplary damages, and recovered judgment in said court, from which an appeal was taken to the county court.
Besides a general denial, defendant sought t'o justify under a special plea to the effect that the cotton was taken under a claim of…
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